Thomas Linton Metzger was an American white supremacist, neo-Nazi leader and Klansman.
28 Facts About Tom Metzger
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Tom Metzger founded White Aryan Resistance, a neo-Nazi organization, in 1983.
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Tom Metzger was a Grand Dragon of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1970s.
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Tom Metzger voiced strong opposition to immigration to the United States, and was an advocate of the Third Position.
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Tom Metzger was incarcerated in Los Angeles County, California, and Toronto, Ontario, and was the subject of several lawsuits and government inquiries.
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Tom Metzger served in the US Army from 1961 until 1964 when he moved to Southern California to work in the electronics industry.
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From 1971 to 1980, Tom Metzger was the pastor of a Christian Identity church.
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In 1985, Tom Metzger attended a Nation of Islam rally in San Diego, led by Louis Farrakhan.
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Tom Metzger believed that the United States should be divided into designated areas for different racial groups except Asian Americans, who should be expelled from the United States.
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In 1982 Tom Metzger left the Klan to found a new group, the White American Political Association, a group dedicated to promoting "prowhite" candidates for office.
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In 1985 Tom Metzger attended a rally of the Nation of Islam.
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Tom Metzger made numerous television appearances in addition to hosting his own cable TV public-access television show, Race and Reason.
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In one of his first cable episodes, Tom Metzger invited the gothic rock band Radio Werewolf onto the show, during which a confused Tom Metzger was given an honorary membership in the band.
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Tom Metzger appeared on Wally George's Hot Seat show with Irv Rubin, the chairman of the Jewish Defense League, in what was a very contentious debate.
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Tom and his son John Metzger were found civilly liable under the doctrine of vicarious liability, in which one can be liable for a tort committed by a subordinate or another person who is taking instructions.
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Tom Metzger was warned that any damages left in the house would result in a lawsuit, and while he left it in "a mess" with cracked windows, there was no serious damage.
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In May 1991, Tom Metzger agreed to stop selling T-shirts of Bart Simpson in a Nazi uniform with the words "Pure Nazi Dude" and "Total Nazi Dude".
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Tom Metzger was released from prison after 45 days so he could be with his critically ill wife.
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In 2003, Tom Metzger appeared in Louis and the Nazis, a documentary made by Louis Theroux.
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Tom Metzger moved to Warsaw, Indiana at some point in the mid-2000s.
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Tom Metzger was allowed to leave the premises during the search and stated that address books, compact discs, tapes and computers were seized in the raid.
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Tom Metzger was mandated to make payments to Seraw's family for the remainder of his life.
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Tom Metzger hosted an Internet radio talk show and by 2018 no longer resided in Indiana, having moved back to California.
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Tom Metzger changed political parties several times and sometimes created his own.
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Tom Metzger lost by over 200,000 votes in November 1980 to Burgener in a heavily Republican district.
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In 2010, Tom Metzger took out an advertisement in the Warsaw Times-Union, in order to announce his intention to challenge, as an independent, US Representative Mark Souder, a Republican from Indiana's 3rd congressional district.
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Tom Metzger did not make it onto the ballot for the election, which was ultimately won by Republican Marlin Stutzman.
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Tom Metzger died on November 4,2020, of Parkinson's disease.